Interesting opinion, Donny. $5000 for a keyboard and $6700 for a sound system are a little too extravagant for my taste. It seems that most of the members who play for money with arrangers are doing small jobs - maybe many, but small - about $100 or so per gig. For those types of jobs and for my own sense of scale, a lighter less expensive system is in order. My s910 is actually more keyboard than I'll ever use and the Bose Compact has yet to see me dial it up past 50%. As much as the Audya and the Fohhn systems are super top notch, I think I look at them as something to look up to, not buy.

On a more personal note, even at today's devalued $5000, if I were to spend that much on a keyboard I definitely would want to have some input into the items I wanted/needed and those I didn't.
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